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Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Leah Feiger: Let’s invest. Zoë Schiffer: They have that going for a while. Leah Feiger: It wasn’t full Google, but it— Zoë Schiffer: Somewhat there. Leah Feiger: —had that vibe. To me, someone so on the outside of this in every single way, I know about these layoffs because they’ve been, A) so chaotic, but B) in some ways, needlessly so. Not to say that other tech companies aren’t firing scores of workers all the time. That feels like something we discuss on this podcast frequently, but this is happening with such a large runway and in a way that’s making employees feel so terrible about themselves. Brian Barrett: Well, because it’s not just the layoffs, right? It’s also, even if you stay there, if you’re not culled from the herd, you are going to have to deal with this world in which you’ve got spyware on your laptops training AI to probably take your job at some point, right? Zoë Schiffer: Explain that a little bit. Brian Barrett: Meta announced, and this was more …